Note to self: Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results: we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd have had more time . . .If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satified this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower. --Richard O'Connor
The Story of Stuff
"High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something new. High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning." (Pink 3)
Introduction to Rhetoric:
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Note to self: Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results: we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we'd have had more time . . .If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satified this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower. --Richard O'Connor
Intro to course and summer assignments:Supplemental Reading/Viewing/Listening Summer Assignments:
Last Lecture:
The Story of Stuff
"High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something new. High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in one's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning." (Pink 3)
Introduction to Rhetoric:
Best Books on Writing:
Graphic Organizers for the Course
The Owl at Purdue MLA 2009 Guidelines
Citation Machine 2009 Format